| Have you sometimes been tempted to question God - to wonder why he has allowed the trials and troubles which have come your way while others sail through life with hardly a care? God sees the end from the beginning. We cannot understand, for his thoughts are far beyond ours. But his plans and purposes are always true and right and good. The author of this poem expresses some of the differences in God's plans for his children. Sometimes Sometimes the lions' mouths are shut; Sometimes God bids us fight or fly; Sometimes He feed us by the brook; Sometimes the flowing stream runs dry. Sometimes the burning flames are quenched; Sometimes with sevenfold heat they glow; Sometimes His hand divides the waves; Sometimes His billows overflow. Sometimes He turns the sword aside; Sometimes He lets the sharp blade smite; Sometimes our foes are at our heels; Sometimes He hides us from their sight. We may not choose, nor would we dare, The path in which our feet shall tread, Enough that He that path hath made, And He Himself shall walk ahead. The danger that His love allows, Is safer than our fears may know; The peril that His care permits, Is our defence where'er we go. (From 'Providential Channels' by Retta Long) REMEMBER: 'Enough that He that path hath made, And He Himself shall walk ahead.' | 
